TV & Film Review

Wanderlust

Feature Film |

A comedy about cutting loose.

From the twisted crew who crafted the cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer comes Wanderlust, a laugh-packed journey about abandoning the constraints of modern society in favor of a simpler life. When a financial downturn forces married couple George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) out of their trendy Greenwich Village "micro-loft," the pair are pressed to their breaking point. En route to move in with George's obnoxious McMansion-owning brother (Ken Marino), they stumble across Elysium, an "intentional community"—don't call it a commune—that hosts a wide array of weirdos, including a winemaking nudist (Joe Lo Truglio), a free-love enthusiast (Malin Akerman), and a B&B owner with no boundaries (Kerri Kenney-Silver). Surrounded by acoustic music and smiling faces, George becomes enchanted with the group's laid-back lifestyle, while his wife becomes bewitched by their sexy guru (Justin Theroux). Penned by Marino and director David Wain and stocked with a cast of top-notch improvisers, Wanderlust is so stuffed with jokes that it doesn't matter that many of them don't land. Between Rudd's modern-man freak-outs, Aniston's go-for-broke hippie conversion, and a bizarre mix of game goofballs, silly slapstick, and crude comedy bits, there's plenty here to make Wanderlust an uproarious good time.

TAGS: Atlanta, comedy, commune, fish out of water, free love, hippie, love triangle, marriage, New York City, nudity, nudity, sibling rivalry,

FACTS: Released: February 24, 2012 (Universal Pictures); MPAA: R; Runtime: 98 minutes; Cast: ; : ; : ; :

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Wanderlust Trailer